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Row houses are the dominant form of housing in Washington, lining the city’s broad avenues, grid-plan streets, and crowded alleys, helping to define the street plan as much as the monuments and parks for which the city is so famous. Through more than two centuries, they have housed a wide range of middle-income residents of the nation’s capital: government workers, tradesmen, artisans, teachers, lawyers, doctors, merchants, laborers, and so forth. • The focus of this webinar was on speculatively built houses, those constructed in quantity with confidence that buyers would materialize. They’re an economical form of housing. Usually small-scaled, they have repetitive floor plans and facades, use land efficiently, and require less material and labor to build. • Alison (Kim) Hoagland examined row houses of the 19th century and the way that the form evolved in response to various constraints and influences—stylistic preferences, building regulations, concerns for light and air, builder-developers’ capabilities, introduction of utilities and other technologies, and a number of other factors. • Sally Berk then picked up the story in the 20th century with Harry Wardman, the most prolific residential developer in the history of the city. He made single-family home ownership available to a segment of the population that could not previously afford it, and instituted a new building type that responded to the suburban movement. • Wardman's Washington Website: https://wardmanswashington.com/ • Date of program: November 18, 2021
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